Avoid
Sin in the Wastage of Food
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God, [August 4, 2012 Evening-2] You
think that a ritual should be performed with a specific procedure and specific
materials involving the recitation of the specific Vedic hymns, which alone
becomes fruitful. You think that the specific procedure and specific hymns
alone can protect you, giving the desired results. People fear that the
specific rituals should be strictly performed involving the recitation of
specific hymns using specific materials in a specific procedure. The
priest takes lot of unnecessary advantage about this concept and earns huge
money and respect and due to this, sometimes poor people suffer. The
fear existing in the heart about the negative results in the absence of such
ritual is tremendous and hence, the innocent people suffer a lot.
The main objection to this
concept is about the universality of rituals performed in various countries.
The procedures of the rituals and the involved recitation of hymns and usage of
the materials differ from religion to religion all over the world. In such
case, God becomes partial to a specific region of the world in which only the
so called correct hymns, procedures and materials are given by God. If you say
that the ritual of a specific religion practiced in a specific region only is
correct, God becomes partial in giving the correct hymns, procedure and
materials to a specific region only. The partiality of God is not justified since
He is the divine Father of the entire humanity. If you observe the essence of
all these rituals performed in various religions, you can easily understand
that the basic essence consists of two points only in the rituals of every
religion:
1)
The ritual of every religion
mainly consists of prayers in mother tongue to God that should be understood by
the priest and everyone attending the ritual.
2)
The next essence is the
donation of food, clothes and money to deserving devotees of God.
Since the ritual of every religion
performed in any region satisfies these two essential points, no favour is done
to any specific religion existing in any specific region. Hence, God becomes
impartial Divine Father of the entire humanity. Unfortunately, the only
religion that misses this essence is Hinduism! In ancient India, these
essential points were fully satisfied and by way of the depth of the spiritual
knowledge of the scripture, Hinduism was considered to be the greatest religion
in the world. Today, the same religion came to the lowest level due to the
missing essence. The hymns are recited in Sanskrit and nobody including the
priest knows the meaning of even a single word of recitation. Due to the
absence of the knowledge of the prayer, the devotion exists neither in the
priest nor in others. By this, the priest becomes the most undeserving
fellow. Donation to such priests is not only waste but actually a sin.
In ancient India, this problem was not there because Sanskrit was the mother
tongue in that time. Therefore, [you] either recite the prayers in your mother
tongue or at least, the priest should explain the Sanskrit hymns to others.
Alternatively, every Hindu should learn the Sanskrit language. In such case,
the priest becomes a real devotee and the donation to the deserving priest
becomes fruitful. Then only, the Hindu religion will rise from the present
lowest level to the highest level, which existed once upon a time in ancient
India. Fortunately, other religions do not have this problem because even
today, the hymns recited from their scriptures, are in their mother tongues
only.
While serving the food, you should
request the guests to observe the served items before they start eating so that
if any item is allergic, it can be removed from the plate. Nobody should leave
any food item after eating, which is greatest sin. The cook should prepare the
food in a careful way so that the items are properly prepared. After cooking or
during the process of cooking, a spoon of the item can be removed
separately and tasted for addition of anything deficient. Tasting the
food in this way is not wrong since there is no contamination with the hand
that touches the mouth during tasting. If the food is not properly
prepared and is thrown away by the people, the sin goes to the cook.
Anyway utmost care should be taken in not wasting the food.
At the lotus feet of Shri Datta Swami
-Prasad
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